Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can hardly blame them. Profit and not principle is their bread and butter...
...newborn foals are blond-brown, the color of fresh baked bread. Only after a few months do they change to grey and develop the zebralike tarpan striping on their legs. This change, says Dr. Heck, is the same as the startling color change that takes place so often in domesticated horses. When black and red foals turn to grey, or duns become bays, they are probably imitating their tarpan ancestors...
...pain in the neck or something really big." And only two weeks ago, in Texas' Yoakum County, Amerada's drillers brought in still another new field. It was not a very big one, but it is the sort of new field that Jacobsen calls Amerada's "bread & butter...
Your Nov. 3 personality piece on E. E. Cummings (no relation) proves the need for some sort of national subsidy for poets and day, a writers. Otherwise where would E. E. be today, a man who couldn't earn his bread because he wouldn't sell his head...As for E. E.'s remark that he's glad he's no longer young because his generation "had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy," that is sheer nonsense. For one thing, we haven't got anarchy (which might have good points...
...atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often denounced...